Armor Properties List

Here follows a table of all armor and shield properties in D&D 3.5.

Armor and Shield Properties
Property Name	Property of	Caster Level	Base Price Modifier¹
Acidic	Armor or shield	6th	+1 bonus
Agility	Armor	5th	+500 gp
Agility, Improved²	Armor	9th	+4,000 gp
Agility, Greater²	Armor	15th	+8,000 gp
Amphibious	Armor	5th	+21,000 gp
Anchoring	Armor	5th	+1 bonus
Anchoring, Greater²	Armor	10th	+1 bonus
Animated	Shield	12th	+2 bonus
Anti-Impact	Armor	4th	+2,000 gp
Aporter	Armor or shield	10th	+20,000 gp
Arrow Catching	Shield	8th	+1 bonus
Arrow Deflection	Shield	5th	+2 bonus
Averter	Shield	5th	+13,000 gp
Axeblock	Armor or shield	7th	+2 bonus
Balance	Armor	5th	+3,750
Balance, Improved²	Armor	10th	+11,250
Balance, Greater²	Armor	15th	+18,750
Bane Blind	Armor	7th	+15,000 gp
Bashing	Shield	8th	+1 bonus
Beastskin	Armor	13th	+2 bonus
Blinking	Armor	10th	+15,000 gp
Blinding	Shield	3rd	+1 bonus
Blueshine	Metal armor	12th	+1,500 gp
Blurring	Armor	5th	+1 bonus
Blurring, Greater²	Armor	12th	+2 bonus
Buoyant	Armor	5th	+4,000 gp
Called	Armor or shield	9th	+2,000 gp
Commander	Armor or shield	5th	+2,000 gp
Cool	Armor	3rd	+2,400 gp
Daylight	Armor or shield	5th	+3,000 gp
Death Ward	Armor or shield	7th	+1 bonus
Deepdweller	Armor	9th	+12,000 gp
Desiccation Resistance	Armor	3rd	+9,000 gp
Displacement	Armor	5th	+1 bonus
Dragondodger	Light armor	9th	+1 bonus
Easy Travel	Armor	5th	+1,500 gp
Ectoplasmic Feedback	Armor	5th	+1 bonus
Ectoplasmic Wall	Shield	11th	+2 bonus
Energy Defense³	Armor or shield	10th	+1 bonus
Energy Immunity	Armor or shield	13th	+2 bonus
Energy Resistance	Armor or shield	3rd	+18,000 gp
Energy Resistance, Improved²	Armor or shield	7th	+24,000 gp
Energy Resistance, Greater²	Armor or shield	11th	+24,000 gp
Etherealness	Armor	13th	+49,000 gp
Fearsome	Armor or shield	7th	+15,000 gp
Fire Mitigation	Armor	5th	+24,000 gp
Focused	Shield	11th	+1 bonus
Fortification (light)	Armor or shield	13th	+1 bonus
Fortification (medium)²	Armor or shield	13th	+2 bonus
Fortification (heavy)²	Armor or shield	13th	+2 bonus
Freedom	Armor	7th	+5 bonus
Frost Mitigation	Armor	5th	+24,000 gp
Ghost Touch	Armor or shield	15th	+3 bonus
Ghost Ward	Armor or shield	5th	+1 bonus
Gilled	Armor	5th	+6,000 gp
Glamered	Armor	10th	+2,700 gp
Great Invulnerability (10/magic)	Armor or shield	19th	+4 bonus
Great Invulnerability (15/magic)	Armor or shield	20th	+5 bonus
Hamatula Barbed	Armor	3rd	+2 bonus
Hammerblock	Armor or shield	7th	+2 bonus
Healing	Armor	5th	+8,000 gp
Healing, Greater²	Armor	15th	+24,000 gp
Heartening	Shield	5th	+2,000 gp
Immutable⁴	Armor	12th	+5 bonus
Invulnerability	Armor	18th	+3 bonus
Landing	Armor	5th	+4,000 gp
Linked	Armor or shield	7th	+6,000 gp
Magic-Eating	Armor or shield	16th	+10,000 gp
Manifester	Shield	6th	+6,000 gp
Masking	Armor	10th	+40,000 gp
Menacing	Armor	9th	+30,000 gp
Mindarmor	Armor or shield	5th	+3,000 gp
Mobility	Light armor	5th	+1 bonus
Nacreous	Armor or shield	3rd	+1 bonus
Negating	Armor	20th	+5 bonus
Nimbleness	Armor	8th	+1 bonus
Paired	Heavy or tower shield	5th	+1 bonus
Planar Tolerance	Armor or shield	8th	+25,000 gp
Quickness	Armor	5th	+5,000 gp
Radiant	Armor	9th	+4 bonus
Ranged	Shield (not tower)	5th	+1 bonus
Reflecting	Shield	14th	+5 bonus
Retaliation	Armor	9th	+2 bonus
Roaring	Armor	13th	+3 bonus
Scorpion Carapace	Armor	9th	+32,000 gp
Shadow	Armor	5th	+3,750 gp
Shadow, Improved²	Armor	10th	+11,250 gp
Shadow, Greater²	Armor	15th	+18,750 gp
Silent Moves	Armor	5th	+3,750 gp
Silent Moves, Improved²	Armor	10th	+11,250 gp
Silent Moves, Greater²	Armor	15th	+18,750 gp
Slick	Armor	4th	+3,750 gp
Slick, Improved²	Armor	10th	+11,250 gp
Slick, Greater²	Armor	15th	+18,750 gp
Slimy	Armor or shield	5th	+16,200 gp
Soulbound	Armor or shield	6th	+1 bonus
Soulbound, Greater²	Armor or shield	6th	+2 bonus
Spearblock	Armor or shield	7th	+2 bonus
Speed	Armor or shield	5th	+6,000 gp
Spell Resistance (13)	Armor	15th	+2 bonus
Spell Resistance (15)²	Armor	15th	+1 bonus
Spell Resistance (17)²	Armor	15th	+1 bonus
Spell Resistance (19)²	Armor	15th	+1 bonus
Stamina	Armor	5th	+500 gp
Stamina, Improved	Armor	9th	+4,000 gp
Stamina, Greater	Armor	15th	+8,000 gp
Styptic	Armor	7th	+1 bonus
Time Buttress	Shield	17th	+5 bonus
Twilight	Armor	5th	+1 bonus
Undead Controlling	Armor or shield	13th	+49,000 gp
Vanishing	Armor or shield	5th	+3 bonus
Variable	Shield	5th	+1 bonus
Wild	Armor or shield	9th	+3 bonus
Woodwalk	Armor	9th	+9,000 gp
Total base cost equals the square of the sum of the armor or shield enhancement bonus and all property bonuses multiplied by 1,000 gp, plus any fixed value property costs (those that have gp values rather than bonuses). This property requires the preceding property as a synergy prerequisite. Note that these properties are sorted in this list in application order rather than alphabetically, so improved versions come before greater versions. Requires energy resistance, improved energy resistance, or greater energy resistance as its synergy prerequisite. Formerly called “Proof against Transmutation” in the Complete Arcane, page 142.

Source: Assembled from statistics in the Dungeon Master’s Guide (version 3.5), the Magic Item Compendium, et. al.

Epic Armor Properties

The inclusion of even one of these properties makes the armor or shield with that property an epic magic item. See the Cost and Requirement Summary for Epic Magic Armor or Shields for more information.

Armor and Shield Properties
Property Name	Property of	Caster Level	Base Price Modifier¹
Acid Warding	Armor	21st	+6 bonus
Cold Warding	Armor	21st	+6 bonus
Exceptional Arrow Deflection	Shield	23rd	+8 bonus
Fire Warding	Armor	21st	+6 bonus
Great Invulnerability (5/epic)	Armor or shield	21st	+6 bonus
Great Invulnerability (10/epic)	Armor or shield	22nd	+7 bonus
Great Reflection	Shield	25th	+10 bonus
Great Spell Resistance (SR 21)	Armor or shield	21st	+6 bonus
Great Spell Resistance (SR 23)	Armor or shield	22nd	+7 bonus
Great Spell Resistance (SR 25)	Armor or shield	23rd	+8 bonus
Great Spell Resistance (SR 27)	Armor or shield	24th	+9 bonus
Infinite Arrow Deflection	Shield	21st	+6 bonus
Lightning warding	Armor	21st	+6 bonus
Sonic warding	Armor	21st	+6 bonus
Total base cost equals the square of the sum of the armor or shield enhancement bonus and all property bonuses multiplied by 10,000 gp, plus any fixed value property costs (those that have gp values rather than bonuses). This property requires the preceding property as a synergy prerequisite. Note that these properties are sorted in this list in application order rather than alphabetically, so improved versions come before greater versions.

Source: Standard Reference Document under Open Game License v1.0a, which updated this material originally published in the Epic Level Handbook. Because the great invulnerability (10/magic or 15/magic) properties do not possess any epic level characteristics, they were moved to the nonepic list.